The other day I listed some of the things I got wrong. I’m not the only one to have made some bad calls. A friend who works for the VC investment firm Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) pointed me to their very honest and amusing disclosure of opportunities they missed. The site says directly:

Bessemer Venture Partners is perhaps the nation’s oldest venture capital firm, carrying on an unbroken practice of venture capital investing that stretches back to 1911. This long and storied history has afforded our firm an unparalleled number of opportunities to completely screw up.

A few examples:

Cowan’s [one of the partners] college friend rented her garage to Sergey and Larry for their first year. In 1999 and 2000 she tried to introduce Cowan to “these two really smart Stanford students writing a search engine”. Students? A new search engine? In the most important moment ever for Bessemer’s anti-portfolio, Cowan asked her, “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?”